15 million-year-old creature — with its last meal inside — is new species in Australia
Brock’s iron shield fish adds to the rich prehistoric history of McGraths Flat, and contributes to its classification as a ...
Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all
A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...
A 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish with preserved stomach contents is a newly discovered species
In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...
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Scientists ventured into the world's largest cave and found a never-before seen species
Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...
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Fish evolve rapidly by switching between simple and complex teeth
Fish can change their teeth quickly, which speeds up their evolution. Cichlids in African lakes show the fastest ...
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Near perfect skull of apex predator reveals its 'meat cleaving bite'
Others were as large ... teeth sticking out of the ground,” says lead study author and Mansoura University paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar. Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) sides of the fossil ...
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Why a 380-million-year-old fossil ‘fish’ from Scotland was discovered on the other side of the world
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... the smallest vertebrate fossil animal described so far from the state. It’s a highly enigmatic tiny “fish” from a remote location ...
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Another new shark species discovered inside Mammoth Cave fossil bed
An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...